NHTSA, Toyota examining runaway Prius for electronic defects
Posted: March 10, 2010
Consumer Fraud
At this point, one has to ask wonder if Toyota will ever figure out what’s causing so many of its cars, trucks, and sport utility vehicles to accelerate suddenly and unintentionally. It seems like every time the company says that
Toyota owners describe acceleration incidents after recall repairs
Posted: March 4, 2010
Consumer Fraud
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced that it continues to receive reports from Toyota drivers that their cars are speeding out of control, even after the recall repairs have been performed on the vehicles. According to research conducted by
NHTSA contacts Toyota drivers who report post-repair sudden acceleration incidents
Posted: March 3, 2010
Consumer Fraud
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is finally taking some proactive measures to get to the bottom of an ongoing controversy involving Toyota cars and trucks: can the electronic throttle controls cause sudden unintended acceleration in the recalled vehicles? Federal
congress says Toyota deceptive and NHTSA incompetent
Posted: February 23, 2010
Consumer Fraud
The House Energy and Commerce Committee sharply criticized Toyota and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for their handling of the sudden acceleration problems that have afflicted Toyota vehicles for several years. The criticism was expressed in two separate letters
Toyota apology falls short with angry dealers
Posted: February 16, 2010
Consumer Fraud
Toyota Motor Sales, USA, has a lot of sucking up to do to the dealers that have made the company tops in automotive sales in the United States. First, dealers had to reassure their customers after Toyota issued two separate
NHTSA receives more Toyota acceleration and brake complaints
Posted: February 15, 2010
Consumer Fraud
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has received a surge of new complaints involving Toyota vehicles in the last three weeks. The additional reports came as the NHTSA and two different congressional committees step up their probe of Toyota and
Transportation secretary says people should stop driving recalled Toyotas
Posted: February 3, 2010
Product Liability
Toyota’s recent recall of 2.3 million cars and sport utility vehicles over “sticking” accelerator pedals follows a larger recall last October of 4.2 million vehicles for possible floor mat entrapment. The recalls have created an undercurrent of fear of confusion
Toyota recalls include the Pontiac Vibe
Posted: February 3, 2010
Product Liability
All the news about Toyota’s record-breaking recalls and its week-old production and sales suspension have made it easy to forget about the Pontiac Vibe, the hybrid car that General Motors manufactured for the 2009 and 2010 model years.
Toyota begins repairing “sticky” gas pedals
Posted: February 2, 2010
Product Liability
Indiana-based CTS Corporation is cooperating with Toyota by sending new gas pedal assemblies to replace the ones Toyota claims are potentially defective, but the supplier says that the new pedals won’t solve the sudden acceleration problem that afflicts so many
Federal government ordered Toyota production and sales suspension
Posted: February 1, 2010
Product Liability
Yesterday, Toyota ran full-page advertisements in more than 20 major American newspapers to tell customers that its decision to suspend production and sales of many of its top-selling vehicles is just a “Temporary pause. To put you first,” as the
